The AudioQuest Lone Ranger is a Zero-Tech speaker cable that is slightly smaller than its Brave Heart sibling at 11.6mm OD vs 14.1mm OD per polarity, but boasts the same user-friendly construction that places positive and negative sides in discrete housings.
Lone Ranger features many of the same upgrades as Brave Heart including an almost one-third more Perfect-Surface Copper+ conductor metal for lower impedance, smoother frequency response (regardless of speaker impedance curve), and a more muscular presentation. Superior polypropylene dielectric (insulation) linearizes and expands the bandwidth of noise-dissipation. Optimized dielectric reduces out-of-focus, harsh-sounding distortion due to distributed capacitance, says the company.
The cable employs thicker carbon-loaded PVC in its construction with an added graphene layer, and 4% silver shield drain wires that further improve RF-noise dissipation. Permanent Molecular Optimization (PMO), a controlled extreme stressing of the dielectric materials, helps reduce inherent cable distortions.
Solid conductors prevent strand interaction. Direction-controlled conductors efficiently drain RF noise away from the vulnerable amplifier circuitry. Zero-Tech eliminates characteristic-impedance mismatches between the cable and the attached source and load, allowing power to flow seemingly unencumbered.
The constant DC potential (in contrast with running-in and PMO’s AC stressing) of AudioQuest’s 72v Dielectric-Bias System polarizes the dielectric (insulation), significantly reducing Dielectric-Noise (energy stored in the dielectric being released out of time and at other frequencies). DBS also linearizes (makes more consistent across a wide band) radio-frequency noise-dissipation.
There is no metal in the cable dressings or plug barrels, which would reradiate and capacitive-couple RF-noise into the cable. Cold-welded gas-tight connections are made to red copper spades or bananas.
The AudioQuest Lone Ranger Zero-Tech speaker cable is available now in Canada for $3,990 for an eight-foot pair.